Neuron

Introduction:Neuron is a macro-based action bar addon. It can stand on its own or supplement any other action bar addon, including even the default Blizzard UI.

Neuron is the continuation of the Ion Action Bars project, however, due to incompatible changes, your profiles from Ion cannot be directly used on Neuron. It is possible to go into your saved variables folder and modify the Ion saved variables to work with Neuron, but to do so is untested and I take no responsibility if you have a bad time. I recommend you just start fresh (annoying, I know).

Theme Support:
Neuron inherits all theming courtesy of the Masque addon. Neuron has full Masque compatibility, and the theming options found in Masque are quite in-depth, not to mention the robust portfolio of skins made to support Masque. In short, you can make your bars look any way you like!

Features:

Neuron features an unlimited number of macros. You can create as many bars/buttons as you want/need per character!

Are you a keybinder extreme? Use the button storage area for all your macros/keybindings! No buttons on screen needed!

Are you a clicker extraordinaire? As many buttons on the screen you want where you want, when you want!

Macros the size of Texas! Up to 1024 characters in length!

Maul's unique mouse-over key-binding system - where the mouse-over binding system was born!

Many other of the favorite desired bar addon features and then some!

And, last but not least, MASQUE support!

Graphical Editor:
Neuron contains a graphical bar editor that allows for nearly endless customization to bar shape, size, orientation, and much more! Further, Neuron has neither the limitations on max number of bars nor on the max number of buttons per bar, as you might find in addons such as Bartender4 or Dominoes.

If the command line is your thing, all of the options found in the graphical bar editor can also be set using the below command structure.

Commands:
Type /neuron alone to display a list of available commands, which are:

menu: Toggle the main menu

storage: Open the button storage area

create: Create a blank bar

delete: Delete the currently selected bar

config: Toggle configuration mode for all bars

add: Adds buttons to the currently selected bar (add or add #)

remove: Removes buttons from the currently selected bar (remove or remove #)

edit: Toggle edit mode for all buttons

bind: Toggle binding mode for all buttons

scale: Scale a bar to the desired size.

snapto: Toggle SnapTo for current bar

autohide: Toggle AutoHide for current bar

shape: Change current bar's shape

name: Change current bar's name

strata: Change current bar's frame strata

alpha: Change current bar's alpha (transparency)

alphaup: Set current bar's conditions to 'alpha up'

arcstart: Set current bar's starting arc location (in degrees)

arclen: Set current bar's arc length (in degrees)

columns: Set the number of columns for the current bar

padh: Set current bar's horizontal padding

padv: Set current bar's vertical padding

padhv: Adjust both horizontal and vertical padding of the current bar incrementally

showgrid: Toggle the current bar's showgrid flag

x: Change current bar's horizontal axis position

y: Change current bar's vertical axis position

state: Toggle states for the current bar (/neuron state <state>). Type /neuron statelist for vaild states

statelist: Print a list of valid states

load: Load a profile

lock: Lock buttons

Credits:
Neuron is a continuation of the amazing Ion Action Bars addon started by Connor Chenoweth aka Maul, for World of Warcraft Legion and onwards. All credit for the bulk of this addon should go to him accordingly, along with SLOKnightFall for his maintainership throughout the years.

The new version is up to reflect the change in name. Just a note, I am now packaging Neuron (Ion) all in one package, including the modules. Thus, the download on this page is the only one you will need to update Neuron from here on out, and the individual module pages will not be updated further.

***Note:
Do to the name change, your Ion saved bars and profiles will not carry over. It is possible to migrate your settings manually from Ion to Neuron: "You need to go into the saved variables folder and rename all the Ion files to Neuron. The inside the files you need to replace any Ion variable reference to Neuron. Is pretty messy to do unfortunately"

That being said, I apologize for the hassle. And, while the above method may work, I take no responsibility if you end up having a bad time trying to get that to work. The official method is just to create new bars fresh.

It worked for me exactly in that way. In "G:\games\world of warcraft\WTF\Account\[account number]\SavedVariables\", I copied my Ion.lua and Ion-GUI.lua files, renamed the copies to Neuron.lua and Neuron-GUI.lua, did a case-sensitive find-replace of "Ion" with "Neuron" in those files using a text editor, loaded WoW, and finally disabled Ion and enabled Neuron for all characters in the AddOns GUI before choosing a character. It worked without a hitch. Thanks a lot for the instructions!

Remaking my entire Ion setup would be incompatible with my life.

3 notes.

First, thanks for all the information on transferring Ion to Neuron, it was completely inconceivable to me that I would have to setup my bars from scratch.

Second, I assume you did it for your bars as well, but you have to use the same method for the Bag, Pet, Status and Menu bar luas. Note that the file names for Neuron do not include "bar" as part of their structure.

Finally, just to clarify, the "Dual spec" to "Multi spec" change is in the GUI as a selection on each bar. I was slightly confused by the comment here until I actually made the changes.

It worked for me exactly in that way. In "G:\games\world of warcraft\WTF\Account\[account number]\SavedVariables\", I copied my Ion.lua and Ion-GUI.lua files, renamed the copies to Neuron.lua and Neuron-GUI.lua, did a case-sensitive find-replace of "Ion" with "Neuron" in those files using a text editor, loaded WoW, and finally disabled Ion and enabled Neuron for all characters in the AddOns GUI before choosing a character. It worked without a hitch. Thanks a lot for the instructions!

Remaking my entire Ion setup would be incompatible with my life.

3 notes.

First, thanks for all the information on transferring Ion to Neuron, it was completely inconceivable to me that I would have to setup my bars from scratch.

Second, I assume you did it for your bars as well, but you have to use the same method for the Bag, Pet, Status and Menu bar luas. Note that the file names for Neuron do not include "bar" as part of their structure.

Finally, just to clarify, the "Dual spec" to "Multi spec" change is in the GUI as a selection on each bar. I was slightly confused by the comment here until I actually made the changes.

Yes, part of the change was having some of the files and modules renamed, you caught me! Nice catch though and thanks for letting everyone know, I totally forgot to tell people.

And yes, the Dual Spec to "Multi Spec" change is a GUI change that you just need to toggle. The way it was labeled and coded before was pretty specific towards "dual spec" which was pre-Legion, so one of my changes was reworking how the multi-spec system works, and giving it a new name, i.e. "Multi Spec" which seems a bit more fitting.

At any given time Neuron is using roughly 40% off my memory. My next highest is Raven at only 10%.

Interesting... The highest I have ever gotten Neuron for me is ~20Mb of memory. Is it always this bad or are you doing something in particular that is compounding the memory usage?

I only just started playing again but I watched it just now while idling in my Garrison. It looks like the memory usage goes up by roughly .10% every second or two until it caps out around 40%. For what it's worth, I didn't do a fresh install; I did the work around with my old Ion files from roughly 8-9 months ago.

At any given time Neuron is using roughly 40% off my memory. My next highest is Raven at only 10%.

Interesting... The highest I have ever gotten Neuron for me is ~20Mb of memory. Is it always this bad or are you doing something in particular that is compounding the memory usage?

I only just started playing again but I watched it just now while idling in my Garrison. It looks like the memory usage goes up by roughly .10% every second or two until it caps out around 40%. For what it's worth, I didn't do a fresh install; I did the work around with my old Ion files from roughly 8-9 months ago.

Upon further testing I've noticed that it doesn't cap around the 40% mark, instead it just slows down and only increases by 0.02% every few seconds.

At any given time Neuron is using roughly 40% off my memory. My next highest is Raven at only 10%.

Interesting... The highest I have ever gotten Neuron for me is ~20Mb of memory. Is it always this bad or are you doing something in particular that is compounding the memory usage?

I only just started playing again but I watched it just now while idling in my Garrison. It looks like the memory usage goes up by roughly .10% every second or two until it caps out around 40%. For what it's worth, I didn't do a fresh install; I did the work around with my old Ion files from roughly 8-9 months ago.

Upon further testing I've noticed that it doesn't cap around the 40% mark, instead it just slows down and only increases by 0.02% every few seconds.

A minor fix released today. This fix makes it so that the menu bar and the bag bars are saved on a per-character basis, rather than on a per-account basis. This was super annoying for anyone who wanted very different profiles per toon.

Let me know if it's nice and stable for all of you? You will need to reposition these two bars unfortunately, as the global config won't be transferred over to the character config.

A minor fix released today. This fix makes it so that the menu bar and the bag bars are saved on a per-character basis, rather than on a per-account basis. This was super annoying for anyone who wanted very different profiles per toon.

Let me know if it's nice and stable for all of you? You will need to reposition these two bars unfortunately, as the global config won't be transferred over to the character config.

I'm having trouble setting up an extra action button. I have the bar created but can't seem to find the right combination of visibility toggles. Anyone know what should be turned on so that it will behave like the default? (ie visible when there is an extra button and hidden when there is not)

Thanks so much for taking up this project. I've been using it since macaroon.

I'm having trouble setting up an extra action button. I have the bar created but can't seem to find the right combination of visibility toggles. Anyone know what should be turned on so that it will behave like the default? (ie visible when there is an extra button and hidden when there is not)

Thanks so much for taking up this project. I've been using it since macaroon.

That is the default behavior lol. You aren't the first person to say they had trouble getting the extra action button to disappear when there is no button present, and for each of them the issue was that they were using old profiles. On a fresh profile or fresh toon can you see if the issue persists? I swear the behavior works proper on my end, and I have no idea why it isn't working. (and by fresh profile, I mean to go into the profile menu and say "reset profile").

As far as the visibility toggles, you should just be able to keep them all checked. Most of them have no effect on the extra action bar anyway.

I'm having trouble setting up an extra action button. I have the bar created but can't seem to find the right combination of visibility toggles. Anyone know what should be turned on so that it will behave like the default? (ie visible when there is an extra button and hidden when there is not)

Thanks so much for taking up this project. I've been using it since macaroon.

That is the default behavior lol. You aren't the first person to say they had trouble getting the extra action button to disappear when there is no button present, and for each of them the issue was that they were using old profiles. On a fresh profile or fresh toon can you see if the issue persists? I swear the behavior works proper on my end, and I have no idea why it isn't working. (and by fresh profile, I mean to go into the profile menu and say "reset profile").

As far as the visibility toggles, you should just be able to keep them all checked. Most of them have no effect on the extra action bar anyway.

Thanks, I did a clean install when I made the switch to Neuron, I'll play around with it though and see if I can get it behaving normally.

Edit: Just tried a new profile on Ultraxion and it's working perfectly. Thanks again for the tip.

I'm having trouble setting up an extra action button. I have the bar created but can't seem to find the right combination of visibility toggles. Anyone know what should be turned on so that it will behave like the default? (ie visible when there is an extra button and hidden when there is not)

Thanks so much for taking up this project. I've been using it since macaroon.

That is the default behavior lol. You aren't the first person to say they had trouble getting the extra action button to disappear when there is no button present, and for each of them the issue was that they were using old profiles. On a fresh profile or fresh toon can you see if the issue persists? I swear the behavior works proper on my end, and I have no idea why it isn't working. (and by fresh profile, I mean to go into the profile menu and say "reset profile").

As far as the visibility toggles, you should just be able to keep them all checked. Most of them have no effect on the extra action bar anyway.

Thanks, I did a clean install when I made the switch to Neuron, I'll play around with it though and see if I can get it behaving normally.

Edit: Just tried a new profile on Ultraxion and it's working perfectly. Thanks again for the tip.

Thanks for the update. I'll keep looking into what is causing it. It is super perplexing to me what is causing this

I'm having trouble setting up an extra action button. I have the bar created but can't seem to find the right combination of visibility toggles. Anyone know what should be turned on so that it will behave like the default? (ie visible when there is an extra button and hidden when there is not)

Thanks so much for taking up this project. I've been using it since macaroon.

That is the default behavior lol. You aren't the first person to say they had trouble getting the extra action button to disappear when there is no button present, and for each of them the issue was that they were using old profiles. On a fresh profile or fresh toon can you see if the issue persists? I swear the behavior works proper on my end, and I have no idea why it isn't working. (and by fresh profile, I mean to go into the profile menu and say "reset profile").

As far as the visibility toggles, you should just be able to keep them all checked. Most of them have no effect on the extra action bar anyway.

Thanks, I did a clean install when I made the switch to Neuron, I'll play around with it though and see if I can get it behaving normally.

Edit: Just tried a new profile on Ultraxion and it's working perfectly. Thanks again for the tip.

Thanks for the update. I'll keep looking into what is causing it. It is super perplexing to me what is causing this

Ok I found the issue. When the extra action bar is made by default, the "No Extra Bar" option in the bar visibility toggles is toggled off, however when you manually create a new extra action bar the bar visibility toggle is default set to on. Toggling it off manually fixes the issue, and I'm working on a fix to make that the default state when making new extra action bars.

*Update: Ok I have fixed this issue now (somewhat hacky but whatever, it's late). If you have an instance of an extra action bar not disappearing still, please delete this bar and remake it (or just toggle the No Extra Bar visibility to off).

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